I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages.
End of rant.
Edit: above all I don’t think it’s a cool name. Can’t imagine asking my friends to follow me on Mastodon. They’re just gonna think it’s something dumb or weird. At least if it had a cool name they would be curious and ask what it’s about.
what else would you call a service where you post toots?
Tooter
I think they officially changed the name to posts, rather than toots. But I always did feel like that held back the platform from being taken seriously. Like, can you imagine a news reporter saying, “Responding to the rise in reported domestic terrorism, President Biden tooted to the nation…”
I mean, how much dumber is that than “tweeted”? We just get numb to it eventually.
Tweet was definitely normalized over time, but it also isn’t a synonym for fart so there’s that.
Wii.
From what I read someone asked for them to be called toots as a joke and so they did it, not knowing they it meant fart. Once they found that out they didn’t really like it, which is why they stripped it out.
Removed by mod
Horn?
No. Nope never mind